Phil Jagielka promises to show Wayne Rooney no sympathy

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Phil Jagielka may have a few words for Wayne Rooney when they meet at Goodison Park on Saturday lunchtimePA/Empics

Mattt Hughes, Deputy Football Correspondent

Last updated at 12:01AM, September 9 2010

Do international team-mates have to like each other? That was the intriguing
question raised yesterday after Phil Jagielka’s admission that he has little
time for Wayne Rooney.

The Everton centre back’s no-nonsense defending has made quite an impression
over the past week and he appears to be equally uncompromising off the pitch
as well.

Rooney’s marital strife has earned him considerable sympathy from many of his
England team-mates over the past few days, but not Jagielka. As someone
whose formative influence as a young player was the straight-talking Neil
Warnock at Sheffield United, it should come as little surprise that